Jason K. Giordano

Jason K. Giordano serves as a Director of Utz, Chairman of the Compensation Committee, and a member of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Giordano has been a Senior Managing Director of CC Capital, a private investment firm, since 2018. He co-founded and served as Co-Executive Chairman of Collier Creek Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company that became Utz Brands in August 2020. Previously, Mr. Giordano was a Managing Director in the private equity group at Blackstone where he oversaw investments in consumer goods and other sectors. From 2006 to 2017, he was involved in 12 initial and follow-on acquisitions totaling over $10 billion in aggregate enterprise value. Prior to Blackstone, Mr. Giordano was a private equity investment professional at Bain Capital, LP and an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs, & Co. Mr. Giordano previously served on the board of directors of Collier Creek Holdings, Pinnacle Foods, Crocs, AVINTIV, and Ascend Learning, among others. Mr. Giordano earned an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and an A.B. with high honors in economics from Dartmouth College.